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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-02-12
NEWS OF THE MORNING.

EAsTERN.-The men ordered 10 strike in
New York yesterday refused TO do SOL.
Disastrous floods are reported from Dlchl-
gan, Ohio and Indiana......A destructive
winds storm struck the town Of Louisville,
O Yesterday 1.-THE steamer Waterbury
came in collision with a schooner on Long
Island Sound, and was badly battered......
A fast train is TO be put on between New
York and Southern California......ON Neil,
The "boodle" Alderman, got four years at
Sing Sing. New York is uneasy about
the cholera, fearing it will reach the 18th
mus. A call has been issued for money
testimonial to DR.. McGlynn......The Presi-
dent has vetoed the dependent parents
pension bill.S Silver in New York, 10ls.
FoRFIGY.-General Boulanger is prepar-
ing the French army for coming events.
-. Edgar Raoul Duval, the French poll
tician, is dead. Russia has ordered
fleet to Japanese waters......The Bulgarian
Blue Book has aroused angry discussion
in England THE demands of the strlk-
ing miners at Aindrie, Lancashire. have
beeu conceded .....Silver in London, 46sd.
Pacific CoAsr.-The bids for Stockton's
new Courthouse were rejected Deep
snow is reported from the mountains......
Tehama wants an iron bridge across the
river....The Truckee Lumber Company
will erect sawmill near Astoria, Or.
Paoi Giacomini dropped dead near Bakers
field.....A Union Industrial Convention is
TO meet at Petaluma. Geo. Messner shot
Frederick Muller and his wife at San
Francisco last evening......The Supreme
Court has decided not to remove to Sacra-
mento
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A Los Angelian at Loomis.

EDS. RECoRD-UNIoN: After journey of
two weeks through what is commonly
called the foothills of Central California,
arrived here at Loomis, on the overland
this morning, and l really was surprised at
the boom this place has had in the last
year and half. Upon my arrival, Mr.
Morrison, prince of entertainers, took me
in his buggy and drove to the principal
vineyards and orange groves in the vicinity.
They are something well worth viewing,
but one must go considerable distance
from the station to see them. This place
should properly be termed the Sacramento
colony, as here many of Sacramento's citi-
zens have bought homes. Some have i'm
proved them, and others are about to do So
Among the places we visited were the
tract owned by Robert Petit, a merchant of
your place. 1t consists of about one hun
bred acres and is planted to olives, oranges,
figs, almonds, grapes, pears, and many
other semi-tropical fruits. Another place
is that of w. G. Williams, who has about
eighty acres we'll under cultivation. In
time it will be valuable piece of land
Adjoining this comes Mrs. FL. Merwin's
consisting of forty acres. This is cleared
and about to be set out 10 oranges and
almonds. The next is forty OF. fifty acres
owned by Prof. Anderson, Principal of
your High School. This tract is partly
cleared and is said will be put out to
prunes, olives and oranges in the spring.
The next is a tract of seventy acres owned
bv J, G. MARITIME. This is not under cult
walton, but would make a fine orchard
Across the track from this lies the ranch of
T.. w. Maslin, who has some forty acres of
fine grapes, two years old, and many kinds
of citrus fruits about to bear Adjoining
this place is Mr.. Riders.
This is a fine piece of land and looks as
we'll es any l have seen in the southern
country, but Mr.. Rider and others who
propose to make fruit their business should
follow the example of those at River
side: that is. make avenues across their
places, as it adds so much to appearance
and value. Loomis is one of the prettiest
places have met on my travels, and, if
am any judge, the land that is offered here
at SG5 and SO per acre will, in less than
two wears bring 500 to $500 an acre, and
time will bear me out in This statement.
think Land not near as good, OF. half as
suitable for Citrus fruit as you have here,
brings $500 to 81 200 an oc-e near Los An
celes. where / have been living, and that
ten 10 twelve miles from the city. We
have also there to depend on water mo-
nopolies for the amount needed, and here
YOU have all you want without price.
The boom is coming to you here, and in
| little while orange grove after orange
grove will meet the eye from Rocklin to
New England Mills, and then there will be
no jealousy between the central and south
ern portions Of California. They will all
be working for a common end-that is,
| California, to De known as the supply depot
! for the whole United States, if not the
world. l.. a.
Inonnis Cal February g. 1851
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they shall receive $4,000 each, instead of
$4,000 each, as at present.
These propositions commend themselves.
1t seems scarcely necessary to point out
their strength and justice. If we would
increase the working capacity of the Su-
preme Court we must make the Commits
sion department level with the other de-
partments of the Court, until the accumu-
lated business of the Court is discharged.
If we would have upon the bench the best
ability, we must pay price equal or supe-
rior to that which the competent lawyer
can earn at the bar, and commensurate
with the high importance Of the office
filled. We recall the fact that in the
Constitutional Convention there were
those who maintained that Justice OF the
Court should receive no higher wage than
the laborer, and we doubt not the places
could be filled at 81 30 day, or even less,
but the product and character of bench
so constituted would be more than a Curl
osity in the history of the Judiciary. The
scaling down of the salaries of District
Judges when the change to Superior
Courts was made was ill-adyised and has.
in many counties, borne legitimate fruit,
by scaling down also the capacity of the
Superior bench. These officers shouldn't
least in the more important counties-he
saIaried equal in amount with the present
salaries of the Justices of the Supreme
Court. and thus elevate the character for
ability of this branch of the judicial arm
OF the State Government.
There is one needed amendment to the
Constitution that the Bar Association has
ignored, probably influenced by the local
atmosphere, but which in their souls the
members know to be quite as necessary as
any of the others-the Supreme Court
should be taken off of wheels and located
at the seat of government. A clear S30,-
900 a year would thus be saved to
the State in actual expenses at the lowest
possible estimate; but what is far more
important, the Court would be almost
wholly freed from the annoyance now
forced upon it, to its hindrance in regular
work, under the original jurisdiction
clause of the Constitution. 1t would at
the capital dispose of cases far more rap
idlv and be able, in all probability, to keep
abreast of its work, instead of being, as
now, over thousand cases behind it. 1t
would have more time in which to ex-
anime cases here than at San Francisco,
and be relieved of a multitude Of trivial
appeals taken now simply because local
ity makes the Court too easy Of access.
We believe a majority of the Justices
themselves hold these views, and are con-
WINGED that sitting at the capital will ex-
pedite work and tend to prevent the
incumbrance of the calendars. As it is
now, the Sacramento session is small
comedy and practically useless, while the
San Francisco session results in overload
ing the Court and withdrawing the JUS
tees, despite their sincerity, from that de-
votion to duty so essential to its dis
charge.
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STOCKTON is providing fund of $780,,
600 year to forward the "boom" for that
section-there really seems to be no other
word to use than this, that is at once so
comprehensive and emphatic: San Jose
proposes to make hers 100000, and the
towns in the south of the San joaquin
valley are likewise organizing, with money
back of them, to bring on " Blooms" What
are the capitalists about whose lands and
possessions in Northern California are to
be benefited by boom in this section !?
Are they found active in aiding the effort
here? What, in short, are we doing that
at all compares with the energy exhibited
by our neighbors?
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San rRANcIsco AGENCIES.

The paper is for sale at the following places ::
Ii. P. Fisher, Room 81. Merchants Exchange,
who is also Sole Advertising Agent for San
Francisco: Grand and Palace Hotel News
Stands. Marketstreet Ferry and junction OF
Market and Montgomery street News Stands.
So Also, for sale on all Trains leaving and
coming into Sacramento.
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

R. L. Fulton, of the Reno Gazette, was in town
Yesterday and on his way home from the bay
Colonel E. A. Belcher, of San Francisco, has
imposed and published a Latin students song.
which he entities Z" Dulce Est Destpere," and
which is dedicated to Richard Belcher fson of
Judge /. s. Belcher of Marysville), who IS now
at Amherst College
Arrivals at the Capital Hotel yesterday: Geo.
W. Hawley, San Francisco; A Minke, Brighton;
S. W. Norton and wife, Miss Norton, Miss Sager,
Lemont. Ills: Mrs. A. Turner, W. Jay Turner,
Philadelphia; F. G. Crawford, Willows; u.
Wangenheim, San Francisco; K. D. Clark, Or
land: d. Tobias. J. Robinson, Ike Lyman. Geo.
W. Ruggler Woodland; Geo. Ditzler, Biggs; A
j. Clunie San Francisco.
Arrivals at the Golden Eagle Hotel yesterday :
r T.. Briggs Philadelphia; ID. Hamburger, VIM.
III. Brown, ]. b. Clifford, J. N. Stafford, John
Y. Morrison, j. p. Currier, 6. A. Demlin. J. II.
Dawson +. NJ Stone Henry J.. GUIDE, j. V. Shea,
G. W. Cross San Francisco; Mrs ]. V. Hunter,
Nevada City A. S. Levi, Minneapolis, Mimi;
B. p Murphy. San Jose; Geo. W. Pond, Oak
land David Frazer, Wheatland: d. c. kolp
Des Mones, Ia; 7. C. Coogan, Oakland Henry
Melville, San BernaTdino W. c. Curtis,
r. c. Curply, San Jose; J. III, Davis, d. u Me-
pike Oakland; W. Banning, Wilmington j.
Eppingen San Francisco ]. II. Durham. Pol
som Geo E Lask, San Francisco J. VI. Hays,
Jefferson City. Mo-: Mrs. Geo. Williams, HUM
boldt; H. B. Hopkins. Philadelphia.
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invoking the thunders of the law, and
Senator Yrooman has amiably complied
with the request. Beyond this, it really
appears as if San Francisco rather enjoys
the notoriety of nursing in her bosom
nest of call alive simon-pure dyna-
miters, and revels in the fact that London,
Chicago and St. Petersburg have no mo-
nopoly,of that article.
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THE way to boom" a section is to
proceed to do it, not indulge in constant
talk" about preparation. We have been
preparing long enough in Sacramento. 1t
is now time to act. If we would not wit
ness the handing over of the prize of per-
manent commercial greatness to rival To-
calities, we must be up and doing in these
parts. 1t is not enough to preach climate
and offer lands-we must proceed to fortify
faith with coin and coin with energy and
determination. If the landed proprietors
and business men of Northern and Central
California so will it, the necessary funds
will be forthcoming and the reward of their
sowing will be speedy in coming and mar
velous in the aggregate.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-02-12

THE Assembly made a grave mistake
when it killed the retraction libel bill 1t
provided simply for opportunity on the
part of newspaper publisher to retract
before suit for libel. 1t sheared no man of
any right-in fact it proposed to enlarge
the rights of men by securing to them re-
traction in the same avenues through
which libel may be projected. 1t neither
narrowed nor enlarged the liberty of the
press. The scheme of the law is to dis.
courage litigation and prevent contention.
This bill was directly in line, therefore,
with the prime object of the law. A re-
traction in the same columns that were made
the vehicles of libel is broader, better
and more satisfactory compensation than a
Court Judgment. The man who values his
good name seeks nothing but its clearance
from SANDER, and the speediest means to
that end best conserve his interests.
Other States have tried the retraction law
and not one of them has found reason to
abandon it.
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THE community constitutes the political
man, under our system. ave are mem
bers of body, of the body and for the
body" What is best for that body should
determine the rule of action on the part of
the political man-that which we call the
community. That some of its members do
not obey the law against gaming cannot,
therefore, excuse the infiiction upon the
community of the ills of free gambling.
Yet this is what the Legislature proposes.
A State is in duty bound to promote pub
lie morality; as much so as to conserve
peace and order No real moral status
was ever maintained upon a substructure
of vice, but if we legalize gambling we
attempt that impossible task Legitima-
tie gaming, and we illustrate the mystery
that puzzled Christian and which Great
heart explained. While one sweated with
the exertion of pouring water upon the
fire only to see it blaze the more, there
stood behind the CRATE another pouring on
oil. 1t is proposed that the State should
do precisely this: Permit municipalities
to pour oil upon the fire in defiance of the
moral sentiment at large that seeks to
quench the flames.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-02-12

How COMES it that our Third-street
contemporary, which a few short years
ago, in the light of the then bitter expe-
riences of the people in promoting lottery
schemes, denounced the whole business as
immoral, debasing, demoralizing and in
famous-despite the fact that the laws
were then, as now, here and there evaded-
now approves reopening the flood-gates
of lottery vice?
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Upon us, and we call upon it to stop it, and
do it right smartly, too, and most effect
ually. Now that it sees its folly let it do
something TO atone the crime" November
%, 1870, in its indignation the Bee grew
sarcastic, and said with biting irony, as so
many are going into lotteries why not all
take chance, and it inquired with sar-
castle wit if Washington, in Yolo county,
did not want town pump, if Sacramento
did not need a town clock, and if Folsom
did not want to do something or other to
excuse lottery. The editorial went on
to say that in vain the law and the Courts
had tried to stop the mania for lotteries en-
gendered by the library scheme, and hence,
with sarcasm well directed, it suggested
that the people be given such dose of lot
teries as to disgust them utterly; so many
that they will become confused; so many
that they cannot purchase in all so many
that none will be profitable so many as to
break the bank
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CurLBLA1Ns The following is a sure
cure: Take q handful of dried peach leaves
and pour boiling water on them, and let
them stand till cool enough not to burn the
patient; then place the feet in that water
fifteen minutes. Do this two OF three
times and it will effect cure.
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in this matter, and no local interests or
needs can rise superior to the general con-
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-02-12
A PUBLIC cRIME,

And high one. too, when it enacted the
Mercantile Library lottery law. and the
Governor who signed it without a COM
junction of conscience, ought to endeavor
to atone in some measure for the great sin
by instructing the Attorney General to take
proper legal steps to prevent any more
lotteries being drawn in disregard of the
laws of the State" Unquestionably the
Bee would have then favored Assemblyman
Cars bill, which is dying, we fear, in the
Legislature to-day.l 1--WE look to the
State administration to enforce the law.
1t let this
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The RECORD UNION Is the only paper on
.de coast, ostside Of San Francisco, that re-
selves the full associated Press dispatches from
ell parts Of the ,oorld. Outside Of San Fran
sisoo il has no competitor, IN Doint Of num-
rs, in its home and general circulation
oasghos.: he coast
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-02-12

Cleveland is said to be opposed to both
of the fisheries fetalistion bills.
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Carpets may be frightened by busting
with a damp flannel mop.
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THE FLOOD OF SCHEMES,

And calling attention to the fact that San
Jose, Grass Valley, Marysville, Yreka and
other places were up to the ears in the
swim of the lottery craze, and said: al
ready one man has killed himself from
disappointment, and another
has attem pied suicide and more will fol-
low. u while no doubt several will
be sent to the insane asylum. The Legis-
lature
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THEN AND NOW.
THE GAMBLING CRAZE OF 1870
WHAT WAS THOUGHT OF 1T.
How Contemporary Then Stood
No Suggestion of Compromise
Consistency Jewel.

The claim is made in defense of the bill
that proposes to permit gambling to be
licensed at the will of any municipality,
that gaming cannot be suppressed-there-
fore the next best thing to do is to regu-
late it.
The assumption that it cannot be sup
pressed is false in fact, and hence all con-
illusions based upon it fall. In the second
place, if true, it does not give warrant to
the State, or any of its subordinate branches
of government, for engaging in it, since it
is the duty OF all government to conserve
public morality. Whoever accepts the
wages of sin is participator therein and a
promoter thereof. No community in all
the range of history has prospered that
was sharer in the proceeds of vice. This
may be written down as an axiom. All the
communities of Europe that have been
and are gambling hells, have had no
other prominence whatever, and to-day the
old world is everywhere exerting itself TO
cast off the shackles of gambling, wher-
ever license has put them upon the limbs
of a community
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SOME PAST HISTORY,

The chief journalistic influence that IA
vors gambling licenses, and warmly ad-
vises the setting up of lotteries (the two are
inseparable, in fact,) is our amiable con-
temporary, the Sacramento Bee, which
imagines that there is strength in vitupera-
ton, force in sneer, and conviction in
epithets. Our weakened neighbor, who
pretends to hold that the way to cure a
man of habit is to give free rein to in
diligence in it, and the best way to impress
the rising generation with the vice of gam
ing, is to give it free opportunity to engage
in it, is amusingly shrewd, for it takes
especial care to iterate that it is opposed to
gambling in all forms. We give it the full
benefit of this disclaimer of wrong intent
in its advocacy. But if the feet are to be
guided by the lamp of experience, it will
profit that journal and all others to exam
inc into the experiences of California under
free lottery remand that may be taken as
type of the results under all forms of
gaming, even though some games may be
made to pay over part of their revenue
to the cities of California That mere fact
of division of the wages of vice. let it be
kept in view, cuts no figure, really, in the
case
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MORE OF THE SAME SORT.

November 30, 1870, it applauded the first
arrest made for selling lottery tickets.
December u, 1870. it said; "The lottery
mas ndr, py Suage otahiey
lives
December 1G, 1870, it broke forth in two
editorials, and denounced "the opening of
the gates to the flood of evil" and urged
that =" they be shut by authority, and so let
them remain. Better, far, to have
school houses and libraries cast into the
flames than supported thus
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November Z, 1870, the Bee quoted the
San Jose independent concerning the
gambling crevasse opened by the last Legis-
lature," and thus approved its denuncia-
ton. November IS, 1870, the Bee again re-
ferred to the matter warming the officers
for not stopping
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THEN.
December II, 1870, it reviewed the Mays
vile AppeGFS apology for the Marysvllle
lottery to improve Cortez square, and the
plea that it was an honest scheme, our con-
temporary saying that the 4ppea's plea
was this: " In other words, we do not be-
lieve in setting the law at defiance.
but we will do it nevertheless 1t
added: We grieve that jour
nal is to be found in all Cali
fornia that can advise and egg on The
people to set at naught this uise and salu-
targ Tar [forbdding lotteriesl, law
founded on the Constitution itself, and the
propriety of which was neuer called in ques-
lion, save by the Democracy of the last
legislature. Better let Cortez square
remain wilderness like the Sacramento
plaza, than preach immortality and defiance
to the fundamental law"
1t is needless to continue these citations.
There was time when, if ever, there was
excuse for saying the law is overridden and
cannot again be enforced, let us license the
gambling that rules the land-but the Bee
then made no such suggestion, not even to
amend the Constitution. To-day when we
are not permitting lotteries to be drawn,
and only few raffies are tolerated here and
there BIZ neglectful officials, we are told tits
hopeless to stop lottery gambling or any
other gaming. and the right thing to do in
one case is to amend the Constitution
not long ago our contemporary advised the
Legislature to pass a permissive law any
how-and lei lotteries be run in the inter
est of the cities and towns, with the State
as chief banker" This same journal to-
day, when gambling is under consideration,
advises the passage of the License
Act, and has not a word to say in behalf OF
Mr.. Cars bill to more effectually choke
foreign and all other lotteries out of the
State